Workday Business Advisor
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The TMX group of companies includes leading global exchanges such as the Toronto Stock Exchange, Montreal Exchange, and numerous innovative organizations enhancing capital markets. United as a global team, we're connecting cross-functionally, traversing industries and geographies, moving opportunity into action, advancing global economic growth, and propelling progress. Through a rich exchange of ideas, meaningful collaboration, and a nimble operating model, we're powering some of the nation's most critical systems, fueling capital formation and innovation, bringing increased opportunity to business visionaries, product ingenuity to consumers, and career exploration to our team.
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Workday is our global enterprise HR and Finance solution. The functionality in use includes HR core operations, payroll, performance, compensation, financial accounting, budgeting/planning, spend and procurement management, invoicing and project management and much more! Workday is directly integrated with banks, benefit providers, internal billing systems and other internal cloud platforms such as Servicenow.Reporting to the Platform Manager, IT Corporate Solutions, the Workday Analyst is responsible for providing business analysis, technical, configuration, security and development support across the platform. The role works closely with our Corporate HR and Finance teams to deliver on their technology roadmaps to continuously optimize our Workday investment.
Key Accountabilities:
Understand and be familiar with business requirements and business processes across different functional areas (HR, Finance and PMO),
Keep up with constantly delivered new functionality and understand module interdependencies in order to advise on the impacts of requested changes,
Coach users in business areas in Workday functionality
Self prioritize and deliver tasks to meet client expectations
Identify, assess, and solve complex business problems for integrating the Workday cloud application with external applications across a wide array of Human Capital Management and Financial functional areas, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
Support Workday integration code including Studio, EIB and supporting 3rd party coding in production and testing environments in conjunction with our vendor partners
Develop strong knowledge / understanding of the Workday security model
Lead and support the requirements, design, configuration/ development, operations and maintenance of Workday security modules
Problem solving and troubleshooting of issues relating to security and reporting needs, perform hands-on security group, domain and user security configurations in Workday HCM
Recommend best security practices and provide sound solutions to support end to end business processes
Develop and test complex reports using calculated fields, matrix/composite reports and other reporting technologies in Workday
Perform on-going security audits, maintain security controls per audit policies and guidelines and perform impact analysis due to new needs, change requests or Workday system upgrades
Develop broad knowledge of various functional areas in Workday and their interdependencies
Research and understand new features or functionality as requested in order to provide feedback and recommendations on best approach to achieve desired outcome
Understanding users requirements relating to identified issues, proposed enhancements & feature requests
Provide direction / support / guidance for support team members to implement required changes, enhancements & features, including assistance with the development of test scenarios relating to the requested changes
Configure and implement new functionality in multiple environments and support testing
Partner with business lines to develop an understanding of full end to end business processes (on & off system) to better leverage technology for optimization; Assist with the related requirements and process documentation
Develop a deep understanding of the business process framework to make recommendations relating to desired changes (& provide guidance to support the team as noted above.
Build knowledge on Workday reporting and dashboards coordinate a reporting peer review team across functional areas
Design, build, test and deploy integration solutions between Workday and 20+ internal/external platforms
Quality peer review of reports generated with the other functions (Ensure use of consistent data objects, calculations, etc to yield consistent results when reporting on the same types of data)
Ensure testing protocol compliance from report writers in business before releasing reports to production
Skills and Experience:
Must Have(s):
2+ years previous experience in ERP / HRIS as a super user in Workday
Ability to partner with business lines to understand and analyze requirements
Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships
Ability to build solutions based on target outcomes with minimal direction from senior staff
Ability to learn through online research and interaction with other users (Workday Community)
Excellent time management skills
Attention to detail and strong documentation skills
Nice to Have(s):
Functional (HR/Finance) area experience
Consulting experience
Business analysis experience
Report writing experience
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Wellness - From empathetic leadership to a culture of flexibility and balance, we believe wellness at work creates the maximum yield and a stronger "we". Plus, with a cloud-first and hybrid workstyle, as well as generous time-off and leaves, we support a life well lived!
Growth - From a growth mindset in our work, to expansion in our business, TMX is home to action-takers energized by the achievement of ambitious growth.
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TMX is committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide accommodations for applicants and employees who require it.